>in Elliott’s case, prompts were “exposed, in each of those settings, the moment a human being actually looked at what the machine produced,” Spader said.
Well that's a contradiction.
You can find the reuters article here: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/connecticut-judge-s... (notice how there is no quote about the machine produced thing in the article, because the judge didn't actually say this).
The quote is from this order: https://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/DocumentInquiry/DocumentInqu... where the context of "machine produced" is fully different from the context in this article and actually goes into detail.
But this garbage article lumps it together as if the judge is commenting on this particular thing.
So you actually have good reading comprehension and noticed a flaw in the article.
This is the full quote from the order that arcs used dishonestly:
> Because the tactic is now everywhere, it is unsurprising that a litigant would think to import it into a court filing. *But because the tactic is now everywhere, it was exposed, in each of those settings, the moment a human being actually looked at what the machine produced.* The remedy in evèry case was human review. What obviously makes the conduct improper in a court setting is that it attempts to make a decision-making process turn on something other than the honest, visible content of the filing. *The Connecticut Judicial Branch does not utilize an artificial-intelligence system to review or decide filings, although a number of court systems elsewhere do so.* The undersigned denied Docket Entry #177.00 on its merits working off a printed version of the motion, so the hidden instruction had no impact on a ruling. The wrong lies in the attempt, the deliberate planting of a concealed directive intended to mislead whatever artificial-intelligence tool ANY reader of the filing might use. The Court does not find the plaintiff credible that he only added the prompt to "audit"the Court's use of artificial-intelligence systems. He did so attempting to achieve a result he did not achieve when humans, knowledgeable in the Practice Book and the law, read his pleadings.
In the context, "these settings" does not refer to this case but examples of where AI generated content was used and caught.
To me, it seems truly frightening that a Silicon Valley company could be placed in such a direct position of trust and influence over the legal system. There are examples of AI acting in its own self-interest over the wants of its masters, so I do wonder how it would handle cases against its respective company, or things which would directly impact it. Outside of that, I still worry about its impartiality and its overall correctness.
It makes me feel very uneasy.
I am fine with such tooling assisted matters.
I would also be fine with generative AI, with enough tool calls, being used by courts to find commonalities of a certain case in many other cases as a more enhanced search engine with always a judge, lawyer/solicitor, prosecutor, and optional jury, at the helm and being both in control and end responsible.
Right.
For example, look at how Elmu had Grok edited to agree with him politically regarding his claims of white genocide in South Africa.
Imagine thinking that you can sue a strategically important to the US gov trillion dollar company and win.
I wouldn't call it a Silicon Valley company. LexisNexis is in headquartered in New York.
It might be as simple as a clerk doing "select all" and noticing the extra selection?
Or what else?
> these attacks do not seem to be succeeding, even when a judge isn’t reviewing documents with his own eyes. Brazil’s AI system caught the hidden text before it was processed, Spader noted. And in Elliott’s case, prompts were “exposed, in each of those settings, the moment a human being actually looked at what the machine produced,” Spader said.
There's a long post near the top of this comment section calling the article "garbage" because of this mistake.
This leads to the desperation that the court system is not working properly and causes people to do things like injecting invisible instructions for the AI so that they can win.
I responded to you above where you mentioned that AI cannot do nuance with some information from the judge in this particular case that claimants in general cannot do nuance because they don't prompt their AI to examine the whole situation. They only prompt for the outcome that they want. So it's not the AI that's lacking nuance in this scenario. It's the human.
I think we can at least partially put constraints on other tasks that look fuzzy to us now, but haven't figured out how yet.
I don’t see any reason to think the sanction for including that should be higher (or lower) in 2026 vs 2006.
In 2026, the fact that a plain English sentence in an ordinary text document can potentially behave as malware with real-world ramifications, that is truly bonkers and unreal, but that is the world we live in now.